Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:10:52PM -0800, paul beard wrote:
> 
>  > But to say NetBSD is slow with KDE in the mix is unfair: I came to 
> 
> ...right... especially when the performance of such a package is almost
> always attributable to the application code itself.  Witness the huge
> difference in performance between Netscape Navigator 4.x and Mozilla.
> 

Slightly off on a tangent, but I've just compiled a nightly snapshot of
Mozilla (NetBSD 1.5.2 i386), and it feels almost as fast as Netscape 4
now. I've read that the Mozilla team are concentrating on size and
performance, and it really seems to be paying off. (Although building
with -O2 and without debugging symbols might be helping).

Chris

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